Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract: Includes material on tobacco industry in Puerto Rico and Sumatra; many photographs, mainly black and white and in U.S.

Physical location: Del Norte (box 1); Del Norte Oversize (box 2).

Languages:
English, Dutch

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

"Archive of letters, photographs, printed ephemera, typescripts, and published articles, 1924-1981, documenting the long career
of tobacco industry engineer and executive Rush D. Touton of the Philadelphia-based Wurton Machine Company and (later) the
Solaranza Company. Early in his career Touton designed and patented successful machines and special production processes for
tobacco casing and curing. In concert with Harry P. Wurman, Executive Vice-President of the Philadelphia-based Bayuk Cigar
Company (maker of the famous "Phillies" cigar), Touton established the Wurton Machine Co. Working out of Bayuk's cigar factory,
the Wurton Company manufactured and leased improved tobacco stringing machines and provided technical assistance to tobacco
growers, especially in Connecticut and Sumatra. In turn, these growers sold their tobacco to the Bayuk Company. In 1961 Touton
took complete control of the Wurton Company, renamed it the Solaranza Company, and trained its expertise on Puerto Rican tobacco
production, still for the benefit of the Bayuk Company, with which Touton worked simultaneously as technical advisor and public
spokesman for over 50 years.

"Rush Touton's records of his tobacco industry career comprise: over 125 photographs, [...] over 340 manuscript, typed, and
printed items, [...] typescripts, off-prints, and advertisements for Touton's professional articles, speeches, and public
announcements regarding tobacco machinery, and typed and printed technical reports, diagrams, instructions and leases for
the same; and related paper and metal tobacco ephemera (e.g., booklets, metal nameplates for machinery produced by Touton's
businesses)."

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